The following is a Guest Post from my good friend and a great scholar, Janine Jones, a doctoral student in modern Middle East intellectual history at The University of Texas at Austin. It stems from conversations we have had sharing the interests that cross our disciplines—language, literacies, equity, education. Among linguists, Arabic is commonly classified as a diglossic language*. In other words, written Arabic, the … Continue reading Social Media and Language Democratization in Egypt